"The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed."
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"I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!"
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"How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?"
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"Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"
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"The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came."
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"Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing."
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"In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere"
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"Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done."
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"No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think."
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"The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems."
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"Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves."
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"Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so."
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"I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre."
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"Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor."
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"Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly."
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"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
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"O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!"
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"But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend."
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"For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build."
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"The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less."
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